Laura Hawkins

Swim 8km in October 2025

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I swam 40 lengths at my local pool yesterday kicking off this challenge with a bang. 

I've been swimming to improve my fitness for cricket the last few weeks so jumped at the chance of this challenge. But, it's more than double what I swam in the last month so it'll certainly be a test! 

40 /320 lengths complete 

I’m swimming 8km in October for GOSH Charity!

I’m challenging myself to swim 8km this October to raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity (GOSH Charity).

Childhood is special. It should be a time of joy, wonder, curiosity and fun. Of making friends, making mistakes, and growing into the adults we become. But it’s also fragile, and sometimes all too brief.

That’s why Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity raises funds to help give seriously ill children childhoods that are fuller, funner and longer. For the children from all over the UK who are treated by Great Ormond Street Hospital every day, for children with rare or complex illnesses everywhere, for this generation and all those to come. Because no childhood should be lost to serious illness.

And with every kilometre I swim, and every pound raised, we’ll be helping to give seriously ill children the best chance and the best childhood possible.

Please help me to achieve my goal by giving whatever you can; no amount is too small to make a difference.

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£100 raised

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£500 raised

2km logged

4km logged

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8km logged

Thank you to my Sponsors

£15

Laura Hawkins

£10

Marc Thompson

Good luck